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...different. This time the source of his fury was not Indian farmers, but its cricketers whose disastrous performance at the World Cup - losses to neighbors Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - meant an early return home from the competition. After lambasting the players, Tiwari called on India's agriculture minister to resign, not forgetting, of course, that the relevant minister also sits on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Leaving aside their special interests for a moment, Tiwari wrote that farm activists "termed this defeat as national shame...
...week after Hyman’s announcement, however, Vice President for Alumni Relations and Development Donella M. Rapier said she will step down this summer and suggested that Faust had asked her to resign...
...Washington, scandals metastasize, growing and changing until we can't remember what they were about in the beginning. A bungled burglary became a cancer on the presidency, forcing Richard Nixon to resign in disgrace. A money-losing Arkansas real estate deal led to Monica, a blue dress and Bill Clinton's impeachment. Already, the furor over the dismissal of eight U.S. Attorneys has shifted focus from the crass but essentially routine exercise of political patronage to the essential project of George W. Bush's presidency: its deliberate and aggressive efforts to expand and protect Executive power...
...point, for example, staffers confronted the possibility that former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins might testify before Congress. "I don't think he should," Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' chief of staff, declared in a Feb. 1, 2007 e-mail to a fellow staffer. "How would he answer: Did you resign voluntarily? Who told you? What did they say?" Cummins was dumped as the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., and replaced by Tim Griffin, a former assistant to top White House aide Karl Rove. Sampson's e-mail also noted additional queries that Cummins risked having to respond to in Congressional testimony...
...interview with The Crimson in October, soon after he had announced his plan to resign as Dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) effective this July, Joseph B. Martin said, “I want to be remembered first as a dean of students.” With this weekend’s announcement of HMS’s plan to double its expenditure on compensation for hospital-based teachers, Martin may have found a roundabout way to solidify that image in the eyes of HMS doctors for years to come. HMS currently budgets $8 million per year...